Educational toy building block



improvement are `WILLIMI A. Goran. or' WEBST'ER onovns, Mrssounr.

EDUCATIONAL TOY ZBUILDING BLOCK.

` Appncafin fiiea mvember e, v1828.

My invention relates to improvements in educational toy building blocks,some faces of which are designed or markedwith stripes along theirmargins; and the objects of my first, to provide a suitable medium inthe nature of building made Vpreferably of wood orl other lightmaterial, for educational and vrecreational use byV children in thesolution of practical problems inbuildings and construction; second, togive to this material greater educational value by ndesigning certainfaces of the blocks in such manner as to require the careful thinkingof'the builder 1n lcorrectly and `properly assembling the blocks insuchv manner that the designs on the faces of the individual blocks willcontribute properlyV to the effect of the assembled collection orstructure as a whole; third, to cause the blocks when a' number of themare properly assembled and laid together in rows orV Courses one uponpearance, because of the -mortar-imitating stripes on the margins ofsome of the faces, of brick, tile, stone or other similar buildingmaterial laid together in mortar or cement. i V

Figure 1 is a .perspective view of a block designed for use in buildingplain'walls and corners and embodies the features of my invention.Figure 2 is a perspective view of a block designed for 'use in buildingcorners, columns and pilasters and embodies the features of myinvention. f Figure 3 is a perspective view of a numbertof blocksproperly assembled in Courses laid one 'upon another forming a wall andcorner. Figure l is a perspective view of a number of blocks properlyassembled forming a column. In Figure 1, a is a mortar-imitating stripealong the lower margin on an end of the block; Z) is a mortar-'imitatingstripe extending from anend of a along the. lowerv edge of the frontface of the block and Vconnecting with c, which is a'vertical'mortar-imitating stripe along the right margin of the sameface. Stripes b and c form an L- shaped figure extending the entire'length of wo adj at'ent marginsof the front face of the lock. i

blocks,

Vsame relative positions, giving another to present the apa VVstripesalong Semi no. 876,511.

In Figure 2, d is amortar-imitati'ng stripe along the lower edge of theleft end ofthe block; e is a mortar-lmitating stripe extendi' ing alongthe lower edge of the `front face of the block, connecting at the leftend with dfand'at the right end withvf, which is a mortar-imitatinostripe extending along the lower margin of the` right end of the block,w from the right end of e to g, which is a vertical mortar-imitatingstripe extending from f along the back margin of theright end of theblock. Stripes f'and g form an L-'shaped figure' extendng the entirelength of two adja'cent margins of the right end of the block. i w

In Figure 3 a number of blocks are so assembled that with reference tothe portions of each block that are exposed to view the mortar-imitatingStripes thereon occupythe to the entire ,assembled collection theappearance of a structure of brick, tile, stone or otherl similarbuildinoP material laid in mortar or cement.

In Flgure. 4 a number of blocks of the type shown in Figure 2 are soassembled that the blocks are all in the same relative posi-V tion, themortar-imitating stripes -extending along face and both ends of theblocks and in a' Vertical position along the right margin of the rightend of each block.

I claim:--

the entire lower margins of the front i 1. A toy buiieng block providedvwith faces and provided Wlth mortar-imitating f the margins of thee-Xposed faces adjacent'to one of thehorizontal faces, and providedwitha mortar-imitating stripe extending upwardly from the end ofone of saidfirst-named Stripes. and on thesame exposed face of the building block.

3.'A toy building block provided with a I mortar-imitating stripeonyonly one of the longitudinal margins of its front face, and alnortar-imita-tng stripe on only one of the end margins of said face.

4. A toy building block With a mortar-imitating stripe eXtending theentire length of the lower longitudinal margin of its front face; asecond mortar-imitating stripe eX- tending baekward from' the leftextreinity of the first stripe alongthelower marleft end of the block;

ginl of the and a third niortar-imitating stripe extending upward fromthe right extremity of the first stripe along the right margin of thefront fa'ce of the block; the third stripe, together With the first;forming an l .-sl i`aped design or figure covering two djeicent m'arginof the front face of the loc

